Nickel alarm-clock.



E; E. STOCKTON.

NICKEL ALARM OLOOK. APPLICATION FILED r3119, 1909.

936,054. Patented Oct. 5, 1909.

onrrnn STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

ELIVIER E. STOCKTON, OF BRISTOL, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE E. INGRAHAM CO.,

OF BRISTOL, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

NICKEL ALARM-CLOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 5, 1909.

Application filed February 19, 1909. Serial No. 478,852.

lb all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER E. STOCKTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bristol, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Nickel Alarm-Clocks; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure l a view in front elevation of a clock embodying my invention. Fig. 2 a view thereof partly in plan and partly in horizontal section.

My invent-ion relates to an improvement in that class of nickel alarm clocks in which a concentrically arranged bell is located within the clock-case, the object being to provide a simple, reliable, effective and convenient clock of the character described.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, the relatively large, concentrically arranged hell 2 is secured by one or more screws 3 to a disklike dust-guard 4 located in front of the clock-movement 5 which is only partially shown. In front of the bell 2 and concentric therewith, I locate a shallow sheet-metal dial-cup 6 containing a dial T, the flange of the cup 6 forming, as it were,

a dial-mat and supporting a glass or crystal- 8 which is held in place by small clips 9 applied to the mat. The hell 2 and cup 6 are enough smaller in diameter than the ringshaped body or shell 10 of the clock-case to form an annular sound-chamber 11 located in front of the bell. From this sound-chamher the sound of the bell passes forward through a circular series of sound-holes 12 formed in a sound-hole ring 13 arranged concentrically with the hell 2 and cup 6, and located within the extreme forward end of the shell 10, being held in place by a bead 13 turned inward from the forward edge of the shell and also resting upon the glass 7. The sound-holes 11 in this ring may, of course, take a variety of forms, and the ring may be made of metal or other material, as desired, it being formed independently of the said case-body or shell.

I claim 1. In a nickel-alarm clock, the combination with the case-body or shell thereof, of a bell concentrically arranged within the said case-body or shell, and a sound-hole ring made independently of the said case-body or shell and formed with sound-holes and located just within the edge of the case.

2. In a nickel-alarm clock, the combination with a case-body or shell, of a concentrically arranged bell located within the front portion of the said case-body or shell. a dial located in front of the bell, and a sound-hole ring made independently of the said case-body or shell located within the front edge of the same and formed with sound-holes for the escape of the sound of the bell.

3. In a nickel-alarm clock, the combination with a case-body or shell, of a dustguard located within the same, a concentrically arranged bell secured to the said dustguard and located in front thereof, a dial located in front of the bell, a glass covering the dial, and a sound-hole ring made independently of the said case-body or shell and located in front of the dial within the front edge of the said case-body or shell and hearing upon the glass.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELMER E. STOCKTON. IVit-nesses CHESTER E. INGRAHAM, P. M. W1LooX. 

